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Feb. 23 1926.

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UNITED STATES JOSEEH A. COSTELLO, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO, ASSIGl-TOB TO THECLEVELAF D IBRASS 1,574,368 r rENr .orries.

MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF CLEVELAND; OHIO, A CORPORATION OF OHIO.

Application filed August 1, 1925. Serial No. 47,407.

To all whom it may concern: 1

Be it known that I, JosEr'I-rA. (los rnLLo, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Cleveland, in the county of Cuyahoga and State ofOhio, have invented a new and useful Faucet, of which thefollowing is aspecification. i

My invention relates to improvements in faucets and more especially to afaucet adapted for use in connection with an oiltank-wagon andcomprising a casing which has an interior chamber having a downwardlydischarging outlet and is provided with an upwardly facing valve-seataround the upper end of said outlet for a valve which is arranged tocontrol communication through said outlet and movable in said chamberfrom and toward said seat and adapted to be actuated by the arm of ashaft during the rotation of the shaft in the direction required toactuate the valve from its closed position into an open position.

Said shaft is arranged substantially horizontally below said chamber andsupported from the casing, and one end portion of the shaft is arrangedexternally. of the casing and embraced by a crank for rotating theshaft, and the crank-embraced portion of the shaft and theshaft-embracing portion of the crank are relatively contoured toestablish operative connection between the crank and the shaft and topermit tilting of the crank toward and from thecasing withoutinterrupting said operative connection, and one object of my inventionis to provide said crank and the casing with simple and highly practicalmeans whereby thecrank, when it has been tilted to the required extenttoward the casing after the hereinbefore mentioned rotation of the shaftto the required extent, is held against movement in the directionrequired to permit closing of the valve.

Preferably said means for holding the crank against said. movementcomprise a member spaced from the shaft-embracing portion of and rigidwith the crank and projecting toward the casing and also own prise ashoulder formed on and externally of the casing and facing in thedirection of the hereinbefore mentioned rotation of the shaft, andanother object is to cause said shoulder to be overlapped by saidprojecting member of the crank when the crank has been tilted to therequired extent toward the casing after said rotationofthe shalt to theextent required.

Another object is not only to provide the eeiving the discharge from thefaucet, but to reinforce the casing, at the inner end of said hook, fromsaid hook to and a suitable distance above said seat. j

I Said casing is preferably reinforces, at its upper end, by anexternally screw-threaded bonnet screwed into and surroundedfbv theupper end portion of the casingfan' d another object is'to inexpensivelybut adequately reinforce the casing from said hook co-saidbonn,etsurrounding portion of the casing. e Another ob ect is tofacilitate the manulacture and assemblage of the component parts of my.improved faucet, and to render the faucet practical and convenient andsimple and durable in construction.

lVith these objects in view, and to attain other objects hereinafterappearing, this 'in vention consists incertainfeatures ofconstructioin'and combinations and relative a1 rangements of parts,hereinafter described in this specification, pointed out in theclaims,andillustrated in the accompanying drawings;

In said drawings, Figure l is a front elevation of a faucet ei'nbodyingmy invention. Fig. 2 is "a view taken along line 2-2 in Fig. 1, lookingdownwardly. Figv 3 is a right-hand side elevation'in relation to Fig 1.t is a horizontal section taken along line H in Fig. 3, lookingdownwardly. Fig. 5 is a vertical section takenalong line 55 in Fig. 1,lookingleftward. Fig. 6 is a vertical section taken through, the casingalong line .6-6 in Fig. 3, looking rearwardly, but in Fig. 6 the valveis shown ashaving been actuated into an open position by thehereinbefore mentioned crank, and said crank is shown tilted toward thecasing, whereas in Fig; 3 said crank is shownin the position which itoccupies in the closed positon of the valve. Fi 7 is a section takenalong line 7 7 in Fig. 6, looking outwardly. Fig. 8 is a section takenalong line 8-8 in Fi 7, looking in the direction indicated by the arrow.

Referring to said drawings, 12 indicates a metal casing which (see Fig.has an interior chamber 13 and comprises an integral spout or tubularmember 1% arranged below said chamber and forming the fluid outlet ofthe chamber. The casing 12 is provided, at the rear of the chamber 13,with a rearwardly projecting internally screw-threzulcd tubular member15 which communicates with said chamber and forms the fluid-inlet of thechamber and is adapted to be screwed onto a tanlewagon pipe or othersupply-pipe or tubular member (not shown).

The casing 12 (see Figs. 5 and 6) is internally provided, at the upperend of the outletanember. 14, with an upwardly facing annular valve-seat16, and said out-member is arranged to communicate, at its upper end,with the chamber 13 in an open position of the valve 17 which is shownclosed in li ig. 5 and open in Fig. 6. Said valve is formed in anyapproved manner and arranged to control communication between saidchamber and said outlet-member and to be in fluid-tight engagement withthe seat 16 when the valve is closed. Said valve is arranged to moveupwardly in the chamber 13 in opening, and obviously said chamberdischarges into the outlet member 14 C when the'valve is open. Saidvalve comprises a substantially vertically upwardly projecting rigidstem 18 which extends into a chamber 19 formed internally of the centralportion of an externally screw-threaded metal bonnet 20 screwed. at theupper end of said chamber, into the upper end portion of and thereforesurrounded by and removable from the casing 12. A coiled spring 21 iscoiled around the stem 18 and confined be tween the valve 17 and theupper end wall of the chamber 19 and acts to retain the valve in itsclosed position.

The valve 17 (see Figs. 5 and 6) comprises a substantially verticallydownwardly projecting stem 22 arranged internally and centrally of theupper portion of the outlet member 11 of the casing in the closedposition of the valve, and said stem has a lower end face 2 :3 engagedby aforwardly pro-' jecting arm 2:") of a substantially horizontal shaft2% shown arranged substantially at a right angle toand rearward of saidstem and extending from side to side of and sup ported from the casing.The upper portion of the outlet-member 1a of the casing has a rearwardenlargement 26 which, as shown in Figs. fl and 5, extends rearwardly andcir ciunferentially of the adjacent portion and endwise of the shaft 2%.The shaftarm 25 extends from within the portion 26 of the casing to andunder the valve-stem 22 and (see. Fig. consists preferably of a singlemetal piece embracing the shaft and conforming to external flat surfaces28 on I the shaft.

Said shaft (see Figs. ii; and 6) extends left and of the shaft-arm 25and, between its left-hand end and said arm, is cylindrical and hasbearing in the casing.

Adjacent the right hand side of the shaftarm 25 (see Fig. 4) is astu'fiing box 30 formed around the shaft 2% in any approved manner, andsaid shaftextends through said box and outwardly from the outer end ofthe box and therefore has its right-hand end portion externally of thecasing, as shown in Figs. 3 and The shaft 2!- is provided, at the innerend of the stutling box 30, with a flange 31 which is circularexternally, as shown in solid lines in Fig. at and in dotted lines inFig. 3, and spaced from the righthand side of the arm 25 and abutsagainst a shoulder-32 formed (see Fig. at) internally of the portion 26of the casing between the flange 31 and saidrarm and facing in thedirect'ion of the right-hand end of the shaft andcooperating with saidflange in preventing endwise displacement of the shaft in the oppositedirection. Between said flange and said arm the shaft is cylindricaland; has bearing in said portion 26 of the casing.

The shaft 24 (see Figs. 3, a, 7 and 8) is adapted to be rotated by acrank 33 shown applied to the right-hand end portion of and operativelyconnected with the shaft as will hereinafter appear, and said crankterminates, at its inner end, in an externally circular member 341projecting endwise of the shaft in the direction of the casing 12and'having a hole 35 which is formed centrally of and extends endwiseofsaid projecting member and through the crank so that said projectingmember is tubular from end to end and embraces and preferably surroundssaid portion of the shaft. Said shaft is cylindrical, as shown in Fig.l, between its crank-embraced end portion and the flangell. y r

The crank-embraced end portion of the shaft 24- (see Figs. 3 and 7') hastwo substantially parallel external flat surfaces36 formed at oppositesides respectively of the shaft, and said portion of the shaft also hastwo substantially corresponding external convex surfaces 37 which extendlongitudi nally and preferably from end to end of said portion of theshaft, as shown in Figs. -1- and S, and also extend transversely of theshaft from one to the other of the aforesaid flat surfaces, as shown inFigs. 3 and 7. The convex surfaces 37 therefore curve outwardlylongitudinally of the shaft as shown in Figs. 4 and 8, and outwardlytransversely of theshaft shown in Figs. 3 and 7.

The hole 35 in the crank is substantially uniform in dimensions from endto end and is contoured in cross-section as required to conform to theflat surfaces 36 of the crank-embraced .portionof the shaft so that saidhole (see Figs. 3 and 7) has a flat wall 39 next and opposite eachexternal flat surface 36 of theshaft for the purpose of establishingoperative connection between the crank and the shaft. Obviously thedimensional uni formity of the hole from end to end and the external.convex surfaces 37 of the crank-cmbmced portion of the shaft render thecrank 33 capable of being tilted toward and from the casing 12. It willbe observed, therefore, that by the hereinbefore described constructionthe crankembraced portion of the shaft and the shaft-embracing portionof the crank are relatively contoured to establish operative connectionbetween thecrank and the shaft and to permit tilting of the cranktowardand fronrthe casing without interrupting said operativeconnection.

The gland 40 of the stufling-box 30 is provided,;at-its outer end,withan annular jacket 41 for the projecting member 34 of the crank 33, andsaid jacket (see Figs. 3, 4, 7 and 8) surrounds said projecting memberand is large enough in internal diameter to permit the hereinbeforementioned tilting of the crank.

The casing 12 (see Figs. 1, 2 and 3) is externally provided, at theinner side of and opposite the path of the crank 33, with a flange 42which extends circumferentially of the upper portion of and isconcentric in relation to and spaced upwardly from the shaft-embracingportion of the crank and has two recesses 43 and 44 spaced endwise ofand formed at the outer longitudinal edge of said flange. Each of saidrecesses has a rearwardly facing forward wall 45 arranged to form ashoulder which faces in the direction in which the shaft has to berotated for actuating the valve 17 from its closed position into an openposition and the crank 33 (see Figs. 1, 2, 3. 6 and 7) has an integralmember 46 projecting toward the casing 12 and spaced upwardly from theshaft-embracing portion of the crank and arranged to be brought intoengagement with the one or the other of said recesses by the requiredtilting of the crank toward the casing after the rotation of the shaftin said direction to the required extent. hen the valve is in its closedposition, shown in Fig. 5, the crank 33 is in its extreme forwardpostion, shown in Figs. 1, 2 and 3, and has its projecting member 46abutting, between the forward extremity of the flange 42 and the forwardrecess 43, against the outer longitudinal edge .or laterally outwardlyfacing surface 47 of the forward end portion of said flange, as shown inFigs. 1 and 2. It will be observed that said surface 47 faces the pathof the crank and extends from the shoulder formed by the wall145 of theforward recess 43 in a direction opposite to the direction in which thecrank is moved in opening the valve and that the projecting member 46 ofthe crank moves from op posite said surface during actuation of thecrank .rearwardly to the extent required to bring said projecting memberopposite one of the hereinbcfore mentionedrecesses so as topermittilting of the crank toward the casing, Figs.(i,'7 and 8 show thecrank ashaving been tilted toward thccasing to the extent required to.bring itsprojecting member 46 into engagement withthe forwhen saidprojecting member hasbeen brought into engagement, as shown in Figs. 6and 7, with the forward recess 43,

The casing 12 (see Figs. 1, 3 and 5) is externally provided, at thefront thereof, with a hook 48 arranged below the valveseat 16 andadapted to receive the hail of a bucket (not shown) used for receivingthe discharge of oil or liquid from the outletmember 14. The upper endportion ofthe.

casing is internally reinforced by the casingsurrounded portion of thebonnet 20, and the casing is externally provided, at the front thereofabove the inner end of the hook 48,

with an integral rib 50 extending substantial.- ly vertically upwardlyfrom said end of said hook substantially to the bonnet-surroundingportion of the casing so as to avoid mutilation of or injury to thecasing by a blow delivered externally of and againstthe casing, betweenthe bonnet'and the book, by the hereinbefore mentioned bail duringviolent or careless application of the bucket to the faucet.

What I claim is:

1. A faucet comprising a casing which has a fluid-receiving chamberhaving a fluidoutlet, a valve arranged to control communication throughsaid outlet, a shaft supported from thecasing and having a portionthereof externally of the casing and alsohaving means for actuating thevalve into an open position during the required rotation of the shaft,and a crank embracing said portion of the shaft, the crank-embracedportion of the shaft having twosubstantially parallel external flatsurfaces formed at opposite sides respectively of the shaft and twosubstantially, corresponding external convex surfaces which extend fromone to the other of said flat surfaces and are arranged to permittilting of the crank toward and from the casing, the crank and thecasing'having means whereby the crank, when it has been tilted to theextent required toward the casing after the aforesaid rotation of theshaft to the extent required, is held against movement that would permitclosing of the valve, and the shaft-embracing portion of the crank beinginternally contoured as required to permit the aforesaid tilting of thecrank and to conform to said flat surfaces.

2. A faucet comprisinga casing which has a fluid-receiving chamberhaving a fluid- O11tl8l3,'& valve arranged to control communicati'onthrough said outlet, a shaft supported from the casing and-having meansfor actuating the valve into an open position during the requiredrotation of the shaft and also having an end portion thereof externally;of the casing-and a crank embracing said portion of the shaft, thecrank-embraced portion of the shaft having two substantially parallelexternal fiat surpermit closing of the Valve.

being internally contoured as required to permit tilting of the cranktoward and'from the casing and to conform to said fiat surfaces, and thecrank and the casing having means whereby the crank, when it has beentilted to the required extent toward the casing after the aforesaidrotation of the shaft, is held against movement that would In testimonywhereof, I sign the foregoing specificat on.

JOSEPH A. COSTELLO.

